Masayuki Kurokawa
Architect / Product Designer
CEO of K&K Corporation
President of Designtope, Inc.
Representative of the BUTSUGAKU Research Institute
Visiting professor at Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
Visiting Professor, Shenzhen University (Guangdong, China)
Honorary director of Byeongsan Seowon (Gyeongju, South Korea)
Kanazawa College of Art, Doctor of Arts
Member of Japan Industrial Designers Association, Japan Design Committee, Japan Institute of Architects, Vice-chairman and representative secretary of Japan Cultural Design Forum, etc.
1937
Born in Nagoya, Japan
1961
Graduated from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
1967
Completed doctoral course in Architectural Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
1967
Established Masayuki Kurokawa Architectural Design Office
1983
Established K Co., Ltd.
2000
Established Designtope Co., Ltd.
2010
Completed doctoral course at Kanazawa College of Art (Arts)
2012
Masayuki Kurokawa Architects Co., Ltd. changed its name to K&K Co., Ltd.
Active as a comprehensive architect covering products, furniture, interiors, architecture, and urban design.
Awards
1974
IF Award, Germany
1976
Award of the Interior Design Association of Japan
1979
Selected for the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York “GOM Series”
1986
Mainichi Design Award
1988
Selected for the Permanent Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Rabat”
“Domani Lamp”
“Ingot Grasshopper”
1994
Good Design Category Award (Leisure, Hobby, DIY category) “Gran Blue Fino”
1998
Selected for the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Grand Blue Fino”
”PEN, PUSHPIN, MAGNET (GOM Series)”
1998
Selected for the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum
“Domani Lamp”
“CLOCK(GOM Series)
“Ingot Grasshopper”
“Rabat”, “P+G”
“Metal Series”
“Cutlery, Glass Ware (ACCENT Series)”
Representative Publications
＜Domestic＞
1993
“Product Design by Masayuki Kurokawa” (Rikuyosha)
1998
“Antisymmetric Objectology” (Rikuyosha)
2000
“Future Archaeology of Design” (TOTO Publishing)
2004
“Design Mandala” (TOTO Publishing Co., Ltd.)
2006
“Eight Japanese Aesthetic Senses” (Kodansha)
2006
“The Rhetoric of Design” (Kyuryudo)
2017
“The Wild Impulse” (Designtope)
2017
“DESIGN PARADOX / Paradoxes of Design” (Designtope)
2018
“The Chair and the Body: What is a Chair?” (Designtope)
2021
“The Eight Japanese Aesthetics (revised edition)” (Designtope) Kindle edition
＜Overseas＞
2010
"Materials and Bodies (Traditional Chinese Version)" (Tiandi Books)
2013
"Material and Body (Simplified Chinese Version)" (Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House)
2014
"Japan's Eight Aesthetic Consciousnesses (Simplified Chinese Version)" (Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House)
2014
"Dependence and Independence (Simplified Chinese Version)" (Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House)
2018
"Wild Impulse (Simplified Chinese version)" (Beijing United Publishing Company)
2018
"Design and Death (Simplified Chinese Version)" (CITIC Publishing Group)
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